'Summer Cleaning!'

摘要

10 YEARS AGO. U.S. economic growth is slowing as a result of the housing slump. As measured by gross domestic product (GDP), the economy inched up a meager 1.3% in the first three months of the year — its weakest performance in four years. Analysts believe growth will remain sluggish for the rest of 2007, as the country copes with a glut of unsold homes. ... Fewer workers filed unemployment papers for the fifth consecutive week, the Labor Department reports; new claims are now at a four-month low. Unemployment hit an historic low of 4.4% in March and inched up to 4.5% in April as businesses added only 88,000 employees.